An Outcast of the Islands by Hans Van Marle, J.H. Stape, Joseph Conrad (1993, Paperback) 
An Outcast of the Islands by Hans Van Marle, J.H. Stape, Joseph Conrad (1993, Paperback)
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1993-01-14
Series: World's Classics Series
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0192828193
ISBN-13: 9780192828194
Product ID: EPID45103
Description: Conrad's second novel (1896) is set at an isolated trading post in the town of Macassar, on an island in Indonesia, where a fairly lowly Dutch clerk named Peter Willems finds himself lost and bewildered in an alien world. As he tries to ...
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Synopsis
Conrad's second novel (1896) is set at an isolated trading post in the town of Macassar, on an island in Indonesia, where a fairly lowly Dutch clerk named Peter Willems finds himself lost and bewildered in an alien world. As he tries to find a way to survive there, his own intrigues prove to be his undoing, and in the end he essentially loses his soul. As Conrad writes in his introduction to the novel, "The man who suggested Willems to me was not particularly interesting in himself. My interest was aroused by his dependent position, his strange, dubious status of a mistrusted, disliked, worn-out European living on the reluctant toleration of that Settlement hidden in the heart of the forest-land, up that sombre stream which our ship was the only white men's ship to visit."

Details
Publication Date:1993-01-14
Series:World's Classics Series
Editor:Hans Van Marle

Size
Length:395 pages
Height:7.5 in
Width:4.8 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:8.0 oz

Publisher's Note
A tale of intrigue in an eastern setting. Love and death are the major players in this parable of human frailty- the story of a man unable to understand others and fated never to possess his own soul.

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